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noising refinement of such work to the very old-fashioned mud-
dle of what has been done to the Society for the Propagation
of the Gospel.122 A general history of retailing, amusing but
also informative, may conclude this section.123

'B) COLLECTIONS

Hexter's beautifully written essays - sharp, exhilarating, but
also searching - touch both upon some problems of early
modern history and on general historiographical issues: no
undergraduate should fail to read them, while his seniors have
all already done so.124 For the rest, there is a surprising and
augmenting number of those usually worthy tributes presented
to revered scholars for which there is no English name; par-
ticularly important contributions to such Festschriften will be
listed in appropriate places later. The volume for Sir John
Xeale contains essays on the social and administrative history
of the reign of Elizabeth I.125 That dedicated to R. H. Tawney
deals with a variety of aspects of 'his' century (1540- 1640)
without ever discovering a centre of gravity.126 Diplomatic and
political problems of about the same era predominate in the
posthumous Festschrift for Garrett Mattingly.127 E. Harris
Harbinson also, unhappily, did not live to read the interesting

122 Henry P. Thompson, Into All Lands: a history of the Society for the
Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, 1701-1950. L: SPCK:
1951. Pp. xv, 760. Rev: EHR 67, 583^

123 Dorothy Davis, A History of Shopping. L: Routledge: 1966. Pp.
xii, 322* Rev: JMH 40, 538^

124 J. H. Hexter, Reappraisals in History. L: Longmans: 1961. Pp. xxi,
214. Rev: EHR 78, 726ff.

125 S. T. BindofF, Joel Hurstfield, G. H. Williams, eds., Elizabethan
Government and Society: essays presented to Sir John Neale. L: Athlone:
1961. Pp. x, 423. Rev: EHR 77, 5328".

126 F. J. Fisher, ed., Essays in the Economic and Social History of Tudor and
Stuart England in Honour of R. H. Tawney. CUP: 1961. Pp. 235.
Rev: EHR 78, i^ff.

127 Charles H. Carter, ed., From the Renaissance to the Counter-Reforma-
tion: essays in honour of Garrett Mattingly. New York: Random House:
19^5- Pp- vii, 417. Rev: EHR 83, 599^